Re: KDE hang? (not computer, not X11?)

On 3/6/2017 4:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Thanks Duncan. Very helpful.
>
> In this specific case I was, as best I know right now, down to nothing 
> but the
> Windows VM still running in Virtualbox and doing a kill didn't feel 
> right being that
> should the VM go down hard I'm left restoring from weekly backups. 
> However It
> might not have been out of line to have at least tried a kill -15 to 
> see if I made any
> progress.
>
> Again, I appreciate the the response.

I don't consider myself an OS guru, but were my machine having lockup 
problems, I would want to know how much free RAM is available, what 
programs are in memory, what programs are running, and which programs 
are hogging the CPU and other resources to the extent that nothing else 
gets to share them.

Utility programs that yield this kind of information may be helpful in 
identifying culprit programs and their offending processes during 
operational pauses such as you described.


Ken